With the Dalai Lama, Tibetan Buddhism's spiritual leader, soon to turn 90, the issue of how to identify his successor, tr ...

India halts auction of sacred Buddha relics unearthed at Piprahwa in 1898. Scholars demand repatriation over colonial legacy.

The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima is believed, by some estimates, to have killed as many as 146,000 people, once injuries, ...

If we imagine religion as a technology, argues Notre Dame sociologist Christian Smith, we can better see the cause of its ...

Featuring Shilpa Gupta, Shimabuku, Bachtiar Siagian; commentary on China’s zombie museums, and legacies of the Black Panther ...

David Oromith (formerly David Johnson) is a Welsh Buddhist contemplative, mindfulness teacher and co-founder of Samadhi.

Some conservative judges and Christian nationalists have settled on a new tactic to undermine the separation of church and state: nondiscrimination.

Draped in traditional maroon and yellow robes, the spiritual leader of Tibetan sat and listened to speeches and chants of ...

In a land (professedly) governed by the teachings of the Gautama Buddha premised on the equality of all human beings, Sinhalese Buddhist children are taught from a very young age that they are the ...

When Khmer Rouge came to power after a bloody civil war in which 600,000 people died, the cities were evacuated; economic ...

CHAPTER 7 Gertrude’s brother-in-law and sister strongly opposed the marriage because I was only a clerk. But she was ...

Q: Some people say reincarnation is biblical and happens today, what is your take on reincarnation? — (From S) A: You get three strikes in baseball. The great question you raise is how many strikes do ...